IWSG: Choosing favorites

 

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop. If you're a writer at any stage of career, I highly recommend this blog hop as a way to connect with other writers for support, sympathy, ideas, and networking. If you're a reader, it's a great way to peek behind the curtain of a writing life.

Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. The awesome co-hosts for the October 1 posting of the IWSG are Beth Camp, Crystal Collier, and Cathrina Constantine!

October 1 question - What is the most favorite thing you have written, published or not? And why?

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 Now that's a doozy of a question isn't it? 

 I mean, if I pick a favorite, am I denigrating the rest of my own work? I love all my book-children and their story-siblings!

 But I think I actually do have an answer: it's a poem. 

Happiness—

that elusive animal,

that fluttery, giddy bird—

can only truly be held

when your chosen love

chooses you.  

Strange how slight butterfly wings

so delicately built

(on trust, on faith, on love)

can make you fly.

I don't generally seek publication for my poetry. Poetry is more something I write for myself and those I love, than something I wrote to share with the world.

That's what makes this one special. I wrote it for my husband when we got engaged. We used it on our wedding announcements. He *glowed* when I showed it to him…and the kiss I got afterwards? (fans self). That's how mushy-sweet we are :-)

 

And here we are quite nearly twenty years later, still flying.